entrails

What it means

1. plural of entrail
   1. archaicThe internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.

      Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.

      1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, →ISBN, page 244

      Synonyms: bowels, inmeat, innards, intestines, offal, viscera

   2. archaicobsoleteThe seat of the emotions.

In a sentence

Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.

1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, →ISBN, page 244

Where it comes from

1. Latininterānea
2. Vulgar Latinintrālia
3. Old Frenchentrailles
4. Middle Englishentraille
5. Englishentrails

From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.